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USA Today
Usa Today: Your Guide to Tornado Safety
This resource provides information about tornado safety to its readers.
Tramline
Tramline: Tornado Field Trip
In this virtual field trip students learn about the formation of tornadoes. Students also visit websites where they can research various types of information about tornadoes.
NOAA
Noaa: Tornadoes
This online quiz will test your knowledge of tornado safety. Take it and see if you really are well prepared.
NOAA
Noaa: National Severe Storms Laboratory: Tornadoes
Find out how tornadoes occur, how they are predicted, the smallest size, the largest size, and how they are detected.
Other
The Tornado Project Online
Everything you wanted to know about tornadoes, including weather information, patterns, tornadoes in the past, present storms, and safety suggestions.
Other
American Red Cross: Masters of Disaster: Grades 6 8
This resource presents many science lessons with related activities for middle schoolers in grades 6-8. Content addresses tools for coping with disasters such as tornadoes, fires, lightning, floods and general preparedness.
Other
American Red Cross: Masters of Disaster: Grades 3 5
This resource provides many science lessons with related activities for children in grades 3-5 regarding disaster preparedness. The resource covers tornadoes, fires, lightning, floods and general preparedness information.
Curated OER
Usa Today: Your Guide to Tornado Safety
USA Today relates information about tornado safety to its readers. Find links to important tornado information in this December, 2005 article.
Read Works
Read Works: Safety First
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about staying safe during bad weather. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Tornados in the Us
[Free Registration/Login Required] Overview: In this lesson, students will learn the basics about how tornadoes are formed, and when and where they are most likely to occur. They will learn that the United States is the country most...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Fire Safety
[Free Registration/Login Required] Fire safety lesson and web links for primary.
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: Learning Zone
This comprehensive, interactive site is loaded with information, activities, and stories about thunderstorms, lightning, and tornadoes. Find out how these weather systems are formed, how they impact our lives, and how they cause chaos.
Other
Federal Emergency Management Agency: Earthquake Safety Activities [Pdf]
A 74-page booklet of activities that teach about earthquakes and what to expect when one strikes, what one can do to prepare for them, and ways to stay safe during an earthquake and afterwards.
Other
K 3 Learning Pages: Web Resources Thunderstorms
Check out this comprehensive list of web resources on thunderstorms and safety. Students and teachers will benefit from the links found on this site.
The Field Museum
Field Museum: Exhibits: Nature Unleashed: Inside Natural Disasters
Discover the true powers of Mother Nature through this vivid collection of research which delves into the causes of natural disasters and the impacts on those affected.
The Field Museum
Field Museum: Exhibits: Nature Unleashed: Inside Natural Disasters
Discover the true powers of Mother Nature through this vivid collection of research, which delves into the causes of natural disasters and the impacts on those affected.
National Weather Service
National Weather Service: Basic Weather Spotters' Field Guide [Pdf]
Written in an Adobe PDF file, this publication teaches about basic weather phenomena and how to recognize advancing severe weather systems in real time.
Orca Book Publishers
Orca Book Publishers: Death Wind Teaching Guide [Pdf]
In Death Wind by William Bell, Allie chooses to run away from home rather than face her problems. When she is returning, a tornado strikes, destroying her home, and she fears for her family's safety. This teacher's guide includes a book...
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: Kids Crossing: Look Out for Dangerous Weather
Explore dangerous weather events like tornadoes, hurricanes, thunderstorms, and blizzards through stories, activities, and safety tips.
Curated OER
Usa Today: Thunderstorm Safety Guide
August, 2005 article that highlights thunderstorms and offers safety tips to avoid harm during a storm.
Read Works
Read Works: Preparing for a Disaster
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about how to stay safe during different types of natural disasters. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Curated OER
Fire Tornado
What is a wildfire? How are they caused? Find the answers to these questions, learn wildfire "lingo" and safety tips, and follow links to lesson plans.